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W. Jud Ready Director, Membership Development

Jud Ready is adjunct professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is a member of the research faculty of Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). Prior to joining GTRI, he worked for a major military contractor (General Dynamics) and a small business (MicroCoating Technologies). Ready holds a Ph.D. in materials science with a minor in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds an active security clearance.

Ready has published numerous refereed publications on electronic materials, and his research developments have been presented at more than a dozen international conferences. He has a patent awarded in the United States and pending abroad. Ready also holds a master of science in metallurgical engineering and bachelor of materials engineering, both from Georgia Tech. The TMS Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division (EMPMD) named Ready as a 2002 Young Leader, and Ready recently served as the chair of the TMS Young Leaders Committee. He is also a member of the EMPMD Council and currently serves as the TMS Education Committee chair and the TMS Nanomaterials Committee vice chair. In 2002, he was appointed to the TMS Strategic Planning Advisory Committee that reports directly to the Board of Directors.

In 2003, he was appointed as a TMS Trustee to the Federation of Materials Societies (FMS) and simultaneously named as the TMS representative to the FMS Education Committee. Also in 2003, he was named a Georgia Tech Teaching Fellow. Ready has been and continues to be a session organizer for numerous symposia/conferences and also serves on the TMS Public & Governmental Affairs Committee, the TMS Electronic Packaging and Interconnect Materials Committee, and the TMS Membership Development Committee. Ready has also been involved in a variety of peer review activities for archival journals, scholarships, and federal research funding agencies. He is a member of ASM International, where he serves on the board-appointed Membership Development Committee. Ready is also a member of the Materials Research Society, International Microelectronics and Packaging Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.